In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and inspired by Jarrett Drake, formerly Digital Archivist at Princeton University, and his work to end archives’ erasure of Black lives, a number of archivists, librarians, and allied professionals have banned together to establish A4BLiP: Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia. The group responds to the issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement by helping community-based archival collections and seek opportunities to advise organizations serving Black communities as well as devising standards for anti-oppressive archival description and procedures for auditing repositories’ description for racist language. Join archivists Beaudry Allen and Faith Charlton for a deep dive into A4BLiP, as they discuss the group’s anti-racist efforts in the archival field.

Register here:
https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrceGtqjwrGNfu8gZbj5BTLVacNESVyGwh

Date: Monday, February 22, 2021
Time: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)
Location: Zoom